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Recap of the 12th FOKUS Media Web Symposium –... 0 Comments:

Recap of the 12th FOKUS Media Web Symposium – Innovation, new beginnings, and a glimpse into the future

Authors Naomi Schoppa Published on July 14, 2025 Posted in 5G, dash.js, DRM, Encoding, Encrypted Media Extensions, Green Streaming, HbbTV, HLS, Media Source Extensions, MPEG-DASH, Provenance and Authenticity, SAND, Sustainability, Video Quality Metrics

The 12th FOKUS Media Web Symposium (MWS) and Media Web Week have come to an end. And one thing is certain: even after all these years, the FOKUSMWS is anything but routine. It was a week full of innovation, exciting…

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Tagged FOKUSMWS

dash.js – Give me a high five

Authors Daniel Silhavy Published on March 14, 2025 Posted in dash.js, DRM, MPEG-DASH

Rocky, Pirates of the Caribbean, Die Hard and The Matrix: What do all these movies have in common? All of them are often cited for having a poorly received fifth edition. With dash.js we do it differently. Thanks to all of…

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The Threat of Deepfakes and Misinformation in modern Media

Authors Naomi Schoppa Published on November 19, 2024 Posted in Provenance and Authenticity

To find a suitable opener for this blog article, I truly fell down the rabbit hole. In my search on Google for the latest deepfakes over the past 24 hours, I came across 21 pages of search results. I got…

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Tagged Authenticity and Provenance, C2PA, Deepfake prevention, FAMIUM, Media Manipulation, Media Trust
Emergency! Dinner is ready! 0 Comments:

Emergency! Dinner is ready!

Authors Daniel Silhavy Published on May 22, 2024 Posted in 5G

I’m not a parent myself but I was a teenager once. Looking back at that time it must have been quite annoying for my mom to deal with me. Not only did I always want to eat Schnitzel for dinner,…

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KID it out — Putting Big Buck Bunny on a diet

Authors Daniel Silhavy Published on May 13, 2024 Posted in CENC, dash.js, DRM, Encrypted Media Extensions, Media Source Extensions, MPEG-DASH, Playready, Widevine

Prologue Imagine this: You are coming home after a long day, ready to relax on your couch with a good book or an exciting movie. You are in front of your apartment, you have your key, but you can’t open…

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Decoding Green Steaming – Part III of III Introducing FAMIUM GreenView

Authors Robert Seeliger Published on March 27, 2024 Posted in Energy Measurements, exoplayer, Green Streaming, HbbTV, machine learning, Sustainability, Uncategorized

In part 2 of our blogpost series, “Decoding Green Streaming” we discussed the analysis of streaming devices’ energy consumption. We focused on exploring how various factors such as content characteristics, stream parameters, and display settings can impact overall energy consumption…

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Decoding Green Streaming – Part II of III Evaluation of Measurements

Authors Robert Seeliger Published on March 7, 2024 Posted in Energy Measurements, exoplayer, Green Streaming, Sustainability, video encoding

In part 1 of this blog post series, we set the stage for our analysis on energy efficiency and energy saving potentials in streaming by introducing our Green Streaming Measurement Architecture that seamlessly integrates Energy Consumption Data and Streaming Metrics…

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Decoding Green Streaming – Part I of III: Setting the Stage

Authors Robert Seeliger Published on March 6, 2024 Posted in exoplayer, Green Streaming, Sustainability, video encoding

The Impact of Bitrate, Resolution, and Beyond In an era where streaming has evolved into an essential and omnipresent aspect of our everyday routines, the relevance of the ecological footprint of our multimedia entertainment is gaining prominence. Behind the scenes…

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Tagged energy efficiency, exoplayer, green streaming, measurements, SmartTV, sustainability

An update to the CMAF DRM/Codec overview in 2024

Authors Stefan Pham Published on January 24, 2024 Posted in CENC, DRM, Encoding, Encrypted Media Extensions, HLS, Media Source Extensions, MPEG-DASH

This blog post is an update to “Is this the end of ‘cenc’? An overview of DRM/Codec support in 2021”. If you still need to support Smart TV devices older than 2020 it is still not the end of ‘cenc’,…

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Tagged dash, DRM, hls
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Being trapped in a gap with Big Buck Bunny

Authors Daniel Silhavy Published on October 31, 2023 Posted in dash.js, Media Source Extensions, MPEG-DASH

Introduction When I thought about how to introduce this blog post, the first thing that popped to my mind was to start with a warning. Something like “this blog post will be technical and focus on details that are only…

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Media Web Symposium 2025

The 12th FOKUS Media Web Symposium (MWS) will be held on June 24-25, 2025. Since 2010, Fraunhofer FOKUS, together with its event partners and sponsors, has organized this annual international conference, bringing together 200+ participants from countries all over the world to discuss Internet-based media delivery.

This year’s MWS is again co-located with the dash.js face to face meeting and the SVTA – DASH-IF WG face to face meeting.

FAME Video Development Blog awarded

The ACM Mile-High Video (MHV) presents an annual Best Video Blog Post Award. Among the 23 nominees, our post “Common pitfalls in MPEG-DASH streaming” won third place.

More information about MHV22 and the Video Blog Post Award can be found here: https://www.mile-high.video/video-blog-awards 

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